Siemens and Vigilent announced a reseller partnership in North America to jointly provide customers with a comprehensive and unique thermal optimization solution that addresses data center cooling challenges across the...

Siemens and Vigilent announced a reseller partnership in North America to jointly provide customers with a comprehensive and unique thermal optimization solution that addresses data center cooling challenges across the facility's white space (i.e., usable space allocated for IT equipment) and chilled water plant. The joint effort is aimed at helping data center and IT managers address the cooling challenges caused by shifting IT loads, uneven server densities, and changes in facility configuration.

By leveraging Siemens' Demand Flow solution and Vigilent's Dynamic Cooling Management System, users can significantly reduce energy consumption and improve power usage effectiveness. As a stand-alone application, Siemens' Demand Flow solution optimizes chilled water plants, reducing their energy consumption by up to 50 percent. Vigilent's Dynamic Cooling Management System matches cooling to IT load at every critical spot in the white space, significantly reducing the energy consumption of cooling units. This decreases demand on chilled water plants, allowing the Demand Flow solution to further reduce energy. The joint solution ensures optimal efficiency at part load operation, leading to maximum energy savings.

"It's really a 1+1=3 scenario. Increasing chilled water plant efficiency is one piece of the puzzle and improving cooling performance in the white space is the other," explained Douglas Ryan, Head of the North America Center of Competence, Data Centers, Siemens' Building Technologies Division. "Optimizing both aspects leads to even greater savings than each solution individually. By combining our Demand Flow solution's strengths with Vigilent's technology, we provide end-to-end thermal optimization that delivers the next generation of data center cooling technology."